The second release from The Perth Mint's Orbit and Beyond Series celebrates Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and national hero, who became the first human in space and the first to orbit the Earth on 12 April 1961.

The fifth and final release from The Perth Mint's Orbit and Beyond Series celebrates NASA's first reuseable launch vehicle, Columbia, which took off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 12 April 1981.